Out on the Town Blog Posts

Out on the small town with Fresno’s Robin McGehee

June 20, 2009 / No Comments



Gays & lesbians are making their presence known outside the major metropolitan areas, boding well for the marriage equality movement. Robin McGehee is one of those trailblazers. The Fresno, CA, mother of two created  the pro-marriage force Meet in the Middle for Equality, which drew thousands to Fresno in May. Her message: bring the fight [...]

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My Pride: Vance Garrett’s New York

June 6, 2009 / 1 Comment



Vance Garrett has been described as “the Ziegfeld below 14th Street.” At 28 Vance already has range of production roles with icons such as Kylie Minogue, Tori Amos and Jennifer Hudson. Lately he’s worked in theater, as director for Saint At Large events, including some biggies for New York City LGBT Pride, June 20-27. GayCities contributor [...]

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Out on the town with Kirby Dick

May 30, 2009 / No Comments



Kirby Dick’s documentary Outrage is a dead-on depiction of the politics of outing. So the fact that Dick is not gay makes the feat–whether you agree with outing or not–all the more impressive. Dick accomplished this the old fashioned way, by spending hundreds of hours researching the topic and interviewing scores of gay activists. In [...]

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Out on the Town: Sean McQuillan’s Iowa

May 14, 2009 / No Comments



Lots of bridegrooms are nervous when they pop the question, but Sean Fritz faced a fearsome deadline most lack. A county judge in his native Iowa had ruled for marriage equality that day — Aug. 30, 2007 — and Sean knew a higher court was likely to stay the ruling within hours. He proposed to [...]

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Out on the town: Matt Burkhalter’s Atlanta

May 13, 2009 / No Comments



If you want the inside scoop on queer Atlanta look no farther than the intrepid duo of Matt Burkhalter and Jordan McAuley. The boys-about-town and Hotlanta natives have chronicled the southern metropolis for every publications from Genre to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Now Out Traveler has published Matt and Jordan’s fabulous new guide to Atlanta. Matt was gracious enough [...]

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Out on the town: San Francisco playwright Sean Owens

May 11, 2009 / No Comments



Each year as host of DIVAfest at his resident EXIT Theater in downtown San Francisco, Sean Owens performs his own “drag ballads” while showcasing the world premier works of female artists. You can catch his latest play, Stale Magnolias, a tribute to beloved strong female characters (think Sissy Spacek in Crimes of the Heart) at [...]

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Out on the town: Fuerza Bruta’s Andy Pellick

May 7, 2009 / No Comments



Boys night at Fuerza Bruta is the hottest of events in New York today. FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion and kinetic aerial imagery. Andy Pellick is one of the sexy men in the cast of ripped performers splishing and splashing in the party pool at the Daryl [...]

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